TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Allan Ramsaur on Mar 11, 2016

Judges, clerks and other officials would no longer be authorized to solemnize marriages under a bill scheduled to be heard next week in the House Civil Justice Subcommittee. The bill (HB 2379 / SB 2462), sponsored by Rep. James Van Huss, R-Jonesborough, and Sen. Janice Bowling, R-Tullahoma, says that after July 1 only "regular ministers, preachers, pastors, priests, rabbis, and other spiritual leaders of every religious belief, more than 18 years of age, having the care of souls, may solemnize the rite of matrimony.”